Broadway fends off chill

Nick Jonas, center, assumed charge role in "How you can achieve Business Without Really Trying" the other day. Broadway's overall cume might take an fall the other day, but things weren't so dangerous towards the person shows round the boards. Although total Rialto receipts fell by about $2 million, plenty of that might be taken care of for by the possible lack of two suggests that closed over the past frame, "Follies" and "The Mountaintop." Really the only really large slide every week was taken by "How you can achieve Business Without Really Trying" (beating nearly 50% to $682,879), but even which were expected, since the other day was the first ones to see topliner Nick Jonas enter the role that Darren Criss ("Glee") carried out for 3 B.O.-busting days. Whereas the brevity of Criss' stint prodded fans to buy now, Jonas' six-month run doesn't supply the same emergency, mainly in the finish of what is typically a hard month for your Rialto. Generally, a lot of the shows round the Primary Stem stood a relatively steady week. Most productions, really, upticked, as well as the other declines weren't terribly dramatic. "It of Mormon" ($1,445,407) for instance, rose just a little to destroy another house record within the Eugene O'Neill Theater. Show handled to climb for the second rung on the top 10 -- a sign that although demand at other, older hits may sag just a little this month, last season's "Mormon" is constantly ride its wave of must-see hype. Coming directly behind "Wicked" ($1,503,461), "Mormon" outpaced both "Spider-Guy: Turn Off the Dark" ($1,417,922) and "The Lion King" ($1,382,353). One of the finest bumps was seen at "Porgy and Bess" ($921,404), ongoing to look strong despite winter months sales challenges and reviews that have been all over the map. Really, almost all shows round the Rialto released gains, although most were fairly modest. The heftiest rise in the sesh was at "Chinglish" ($366,258), climbing greater than $100,000 due to last-minute biz right before its Jan. 29 closing. Also exiting the other day were "Around the Apparent Day You Will See Forever" ($614,214) and "Relatively Speaking" ($338,355). With three showcases the table, Broadway's overall cume might slide downward again now. Still, by getting an attendance of 205,816 at 26 shows, the other day was a lot more taking part within the Rialto in comparison to same frame this season, which introduced within 150,000 theatergoers with a smallish slate of 19 productions. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com